v1.4.0

This release brings significant enhancements to Kerberos authentication, improves the interactive shell experience, and adds more robust error handling.

Highlights of v1.4.0

Kerberos Authentication Enhancements

• Optional Username: The -u/--user argument is now optional. When using ticket-based Kerberos authentication, the username is automatically retrieved from the GSSAPI credentials cache (b3ea0b2, 856052a).
• Improved Error Handling: Error messaging for Kerberos and SPNEGO has been made more specific and helpful (3eb8c4a, c3f301c).
• Credential Warnings: A clear warning is now shown if a Kerberos credential cache is not found (27c8f7c).
• Debug Logging: Kerberos trace logging is now automatically enabled when running in --debug mode (b551c19).
• Documentation: The documentation for Kerberos usage has been clarified, highlighting the importance of SPN case sensitivity (b480d33, 9711985).

Interactive Shell & Usability Improvements

• User Path Expansion: Local path arguments now support tilde (~) expansion, allowing you to easily reference files in your home directory (e.g., upload ~/file.txt .) (d5fc44b, 918c9ad).
• Graceful Exit: The shell now handles Ctrl+C more gracefully, especially if the remote prompt is slow to respond (5bdf804).
• Cleaner Output: The initial connection message now only shows the username if it was explicitly provided (33dc4f1).

Enhanced Error Handling

• Connection Errors: Error messages for connection failures are now more descriptive (1bc77a3).
• Logging Permissions: The application now handles permission errors gracefully when trying to create a log file (e1ba8b2).

Download:
PyPI - https://pypi.org/project/evil-winrm-py/1.4.0/

pip install evil-winrm-py[kerberos]==1.4.0

Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v1.4.0